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Akira Yoshizawa was born on 14 March, 1911 in Kaminokawa, Japan, is a Japanese origamist. Discover Akira Yoshizawa's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 94 years old?

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Occupation Artist, author
Age 94 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 14 March, 1911
Birthday 14 March
Birthplace Kaminokawa, Japan
Date of death 2005
Died Place Itabashi, Japan
Nationality Japan

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Akira Yoshizawa (吉澤 章) was a Japanese origamist, considered to be the grandmaster of origami.

He is credited with raising origami from a craft to a living art.

1911

Yoshizawa was born on 14 March 1911, in Kaminokawa, Japan, to the family of a dairy farmer.

When he was a child, he took pleasure in teaching himself origami.

He moved into a factory job in Tokyo when he was 13 years old.

His passion for origami was rekindled in his early 20s, when he was promoted from factory worker to technical draftsman.

His new job was to teach junior employees geometry.

Yoshizawa used the traditional art of origami to understand and communicate geometrical problems.

1937

In 1937, he left factory work to pursue origami full-time.

During the next 20 years, he lived in total poverty, earning his living by door-to-door selling of tsukudani (a Japanese preserved condiment that is usually made of seaweed).

During World War II, Yoshizawa served in the army medical corps in Hong Kong.

He made origami models to cheer up the sick patients, but eventually fell ill himself and was sent back to Japan.

1944

His origami work was creative enough to be included in the 1944 book Origami Shuko, by Isao Honda (本多 功).

1952

However, it was his work for the January 1952 issue of the magazine Asahi Graph that launched his career, which included the 12 zodiac signs commissioned by a magazine.

1954

In 1954, his first monograph, Atarashii Origami Geijutsu (New Origami Art) was published.

In this work, he established the Yoshizawa–Randlett system of notation for origami folds (a system of symbols, arrows and diagrams ), which has become the standard for most paperfolders.

The publishing of this book helped Yoshizawa out of his poverty.

It was followed closely by his founding of the International Origami Centre in Tokyo in 1954, when he was 43.

1955

His first overseas exhibition was organized in October 1955 by Gershon Legman, a leading player in the early years of the origami movement.

The exhibition was held at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

Felix Tikotin, a Dutch dealer, acted as a liaison.

Yoshizawa lent many of his own origami models to other exhibitions around the world.

He would never sell his origami figures, but rather gave them away as gifts to people, and let other groups and organizations borrow them for exhibiting.

His second wife, Kiyo Yoshizawa, served as his manager and taught origami to the other patients where he was hospitalized until his death.

Although Yoshizawa pioneered many different origami techniques, wet-folding is one of his most significant contributions.

This technique involves slightly dampening the paper before making a fold.

Wet-folding allows the paper to be manipulated more easily, resulting in finished origami models that have a rounder and more sculpted look.

The ability to create origami with a more realistic appearance was an important advancement in paper folding, since it took models away from the realm of simple crafts and towards true artistic expression.

Wet-folding is most often used with thicker paper; normal origami paper is very thin and thus prone to tearing when using the wet-folding technique.

Yoshizawa believed the process was the most important part.

He was known to say that, "When you fold, the ritual and the act of creation is more important than the final result. When your hands are busy your heart is serene".

1983

In 1983, Emperor Hirohito awarded him the Order of the Rising Sun, 5th class, one of the highest honors bestowed in Japan.

1989

According to his own estimation made in 1989, he created more than 50,000 models, of which only a few hundred designs were presented as diagrams in his 18 books.

Yoshizawa acted as an international cultural ambassador for Japan throughout his career.

1998

In March 1998, Yoshizawa was invited to exhibit his origami in the Carrousel du Louvre in France.

Although he had previously disliked his contemporaries, he was not opposed to having his photo taken with them.

Many of his patterns had been diagrammed by his professional rivals, which angered Yoshizawa when he was younger.

However, as he had aged, he found that he now enjoyed the company of his peers.

2005

Yoshizawa died on 14 March 2005 in a hospital in Itabashi, Tokyo, of complications from pneumonia, on his 94th birthday.